600 words essay

Inquiry 5

Directions: For Inquiry 5, think back to the beginning of this course and consider the work that you have done so far in the course. Throughout each assignment, you have worked on understanding and using Rhetoric to compose different writing assignments. For Inquiry 5, you will continue to think about what writing is and how you might more skillfully and effectively articulate your beliefs and perspectives on writing. The challenge of this final project is using what you now know about rhetoric and the composing process in concert with your own invention, blog posts, drafts, essays, responses, in-class writing, etc. in order to build a more substantive, supported, and rich statement of your beliefs about writing.

You will be handing in a 2-3 page (or more) reflection that will help your audience understand how the various texts relate to one another, and more importantly, how they come together to convey a sense of your identity as a writer and your experience in this course. For each point that you make, be sure to provide specific examples. (For example: During Inquiry 1 I learned that revision comes before editing. I learned this when we were examining the different parts of the writing process. This is significant because…). You may make qualitative assumptions about your writing process or you may be very analytical in writing your reflection, but in general a reflection is designed for meta-analysis. Be clear in what you were thinking, feeling, or was actually happening during the process. Below is an example of the questions that will help you compose each major section of Inquiry 5:

General Questions:

Introduction:

1. What are some things that you have struggled with during this course? Be specific and provide examples.

2. Why were these issues challenging for you?

3. How have they impacted the quality of your writing?

4. How might you work on these issues to resolve them?

5. What writing skills have you improved over the course of this class?

6. What strengths do you have as a writer?

7. Why are they your biggest strengths? Be specific.

8. How have these strengths been shown in your writing for this class?

Specific Questions

Inquiry 1（argument analysis）

1. What did you learn?

2. What was challenging?

3. What did you do well?

4. What did you do poorly?

5. If you had to do this again, what would you do the same and what would you do differently?

6. What was the process like?

7. What do you wish you knew before beginning this assignment?

8. What does this assignment have to do with learning to write for the university?

Inquiry 2(article rhetorical analysis)

1. What did you learn?

2. What was challenging?

3. What did you do well?

4. What did you do poorly?

5. If you had to do this again, what would you do the same and what would you do differently?

6. What was the process like?

7. What do you wish you knew before beginning this assignment?

8. What does this assignment have to do with learning to write for the university?

Inquiry 3(argument essay)

1. What did you learn?

2. What was challenging?

3. What did you do well?

4. What did you do poorly?

5. If you had to do this again, what would you do the same and what would you do differently?

6. What was the process like?

7. What do you wish you knew before beginning this assignment?

8. What does this assignment have to do with learning to write for the university?

Inquiry 4

1. What did you learn from the Multimodal Project?

2. How is a multimodal project different from other forms of writing?

3. How difficult was it to find media to use?

4. What did you struggle with?

5. What things did you do well?

6. If you had to do this again, what would you do the same and what would you do differently?

7. What do you wish you knew before beginning this assignment?

8. What does this assignment have to do with learning to write for the university?

Conclusion

1. After completing this course, what do you wish you had done better?

2. After completing this course, what are you most proud of? Why?

3. After completing this course, how did your assignments reflect those that you will face outside of this class?

4. How might you apply the knowledge from this course to future classes?

5. To someone who is taking this course in the future, what is one piece of advice you would give them? Why?

6. How has your view on writing changed over the course of the semester? Has it expanded, become more refined, etc.? Explain.

Outline (using the questions above)

· Introduction

· Inquiry 1

· Inquiry 2

· Inquiry 3

· Inquiry 4

· Conclusion